Morning journal and courier., 1887-12-14
LOCAL NE WIS.
Brief Mention

Rosalind wicker note at Dorman's.
 Bargains in pianos at 643 Chapel street.
 "Anchor" stone building blocks at North rop's.
 Deputy Sheriff William Higgins is i'll at his residence.
 Howe & Stetson will keep their store open every evening until the 25th inst.
 The Land and Labor league hold special meeting tonight at Central Labor hall.
 Officer Roach of the precinct, who has been i'll with malaria, has returned to duty.
 The "Matchless" Ives & Pond pianos. For particulars address L. Barker & Go. Hartford, Conn.
 There will be great auction sale of cigars Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at S76 Chapel street.
 Messrs. J. D. DeweIl and Major T. Atwater Barnes have been elected auditors of the Historical society.
 Rev MT. Mutch, pastor of the Howard avenue Congregational church, is laid up for day or two by indisposition.
 At St. Patricks church yesterday morning a mass was sung in memory of James Daley, who died a month ago.
 Dr. Bragg, of Bridgeport, removed a large alarming needle from the thigh of boy liv- ing at the corner of East Main and Ogden streets in that city yesterday.
 Work in part of the clock shop was sus- pended yesterday owing to breakage in the machinery. It was expected that the hands would resume work this morning.
 The establishment of George H. Ford is crowded daily with buyers and admirers of the holiday attractions shown. From now until Christmas the store will be open even ings.
 The entire stock of E. Gonzales & Co.,, consisting of imported, Key West and do- mestic cigars, also large lot of meerschaum pipes, will be sold at auction Thursday at 2 pm.
 A Stratford rat measuring seventeen inches from tip to tip walked through a broken fence in that town "along with other cattle" yesterday and he was killed by Charles Blakeslee's dog.
 The Masonic Mutual Benefit association has just received eight new applications for membership, and the sum of $2, 900 has been voted to the wife of the late Prompter w. W. Smith of Birmingham.
 Mir. w. H. Fletcher, formerly of Hartford and Middletown, died in Sanford, Florida, December 7, of bilious fever after four days illness. He was metal roofer and a member of the Putnam Phalanx.
 George Hardness, the little six year old son of Edward F. Hardness of 237 Green wich avenue, died yesterday morning of typhoid fever. His father had but recently recovered from the same disease.
 The concert at the Dwight Place church Thursday evening, December 15, given by the choir, assisted by Mrs. E. A. Parsons, Mr. c. J. Bushnell and Max Fonoroff, prom ises to be an unusually interesting affair.
 There will be a special social meeting of the Sunday school and Christian Endeavor societies of the Church of the Redeemer at the church Wednesday evening from 545 to 6p.m.
 MT. H. B. Rowe of the firm of Rowe Bros, Fair Haven, has brought from his farm in Illinois a carload of poultry, nearly 2,30O head. This is said to be the first full carload of live poultry ever brought into New England.
 Radiant chapter No. Il, O. E. S., of Will limantic, hold a special meeting Friday even ing for exempli6cation of work on several candidates. The grand matron of the State, Mrs. Carrie Konold of Fair Haven, and Grand Patron Frank G. Bassett of Seymour will be present.